Pandora's Books (Magazine) Near fine. Pandora's Books Newsprint ad section discolored. Megavore was a continuation of the Science Fiction Collector, which also incorporated Age of the Unicorn, another serious fanzine of bibliographic research. Feature article in this issue was a checklist of Lancer science fiction and fantasy, compiled by William J. Denholm III. Tom Johnson contributed an article on the Corinth / Regency pulp hero reprints, and Darrell Schweitzer sent an index to the 'Not at Night' series. Nick Carr had an article about Dusty Ayres and his Battle Aces, entitled the Emperor of the World. Ads, letters, and tidbits filled out the issue.

Pandora's Books (Magazine) Near fine. Pandora's Books Center ad section discolored. Arthur D. Hlavaty contributed a long article about Robert A. Heinlein for this issue's feature article. Dana Martin Batory was back, this time with an interesting theory about Sherlock Holmes--that he spent the missing years in his chronology in James Hilton's Lost Horizon Shangri-La. Andy Biegel Jr. Contributed a long article on the Thugs of India. James R. McCahery interviewed Jonathan Latimer, and also included a bibliography and filmography of this fine mystery author. Richard Bilyeu and Keith Justice contributed complementary articles on some fine points of identifying printings of modern books. Problems at the printers resulted in this issue having the lowest print run of this magazine, making it relatively scarce.

Pandora's Books (Magazine) Near fine. Pandora's Books Center ad section discolored. For the final issue under the Megavore name, Will Murray conducted a survey on the top 10 Spider novels, with contributions from notable fans, including Bob Sampson, Michael Avallone, and Robert Weinberg. Joseph A. Willis contributed an article on Jack Williamson, which was completed by a bibliography of Dr. Williamson, prepared by Uwe Luserke. Keith L. Justice contributed a partial checklist of Robert Silverberg's soft-core porn writing under the pseudonym Don Elliott. Dana Martin Batory contributed another Sherlockian-related article, this one pointing out similarities between the life of Arthur Conan Doyle, and his fictional creation, Professor Challenger. The cover art, depicting Fu Manchu, is by Frank Hamilton.

Pandora's Books (Magazine) Very good. Pandora's Books Discolored. Pandora's Books published this index to Ace Books in 1976, covering the period 1953-1968. From his personal collection, Grant Thiessen prepared an index covering all Ace science fiction, fantasy, and horror books from the period when Ace prefixed their book numbers with a letter code to identify the price of the book. The A- D- F- G- H- N- S- M- and K- series are included. All of the Ace Doubles during this period are identified. This index also contains many marginal works, and works in other fields by authors associated with the science fiction field. Includes some cover reproductions.

Pandora's Books (Magazine) Very good. Pandora's Books Discolored. This issue contains a few additions and errata to the Ace Books index published in SFC #1, an appreciation and bibliography of Fredric Brown, and a book review and bibliography of John Russell Fearn's Golden Amazon series, as well as letters from subscribers, some interesting observations, and early attempts (prior to any of the paperback price guides), to identify the science fiction and other fantastic literature published by Avon Fantasy Novels, Bantam of L.A., Bart House, Bond-Charteris, Century, Double-Action, Handi-Books, Harlequin, Hillman, Lion, Merit, Permabooks, Prize, Thriller Novel Classics, and Toby Press. With cover reproductions.

Pandora's Books (Magazine) Very good. Pandora's Books Discolored. Gene Marshall, Carl F. Waedt and Paul C. Allen made contributions, which, when combined, served to index the Robert A. W. Lowndes' Health Knowledge Magazines of the 60's and 70's, which included Bizarre Fantasy Tales, Famous Science Fiction, Magazine of Horror, Startling Mystery Stories, Weird Terror Tales, and the non-fantastic magazines Thrilling Western Magazine and World Wide Adventure. Also included is a list of the issues announced but never released. J. Grant Thiessen and Stuart W. Wells III combined forces to produce a Galaxy Novels annotated index. With cover reproductions.

Pandora's Books (Magazine) Near fine. Pandora's Books Discolored. Kenneth R. Johnson contributed the major checklist this issue, a first attempt to identify the books published in the adult pornography fields which also qualified as science fiction, fantasy, or horror. Ian Covell sent checklists of the works of Kenneth Bulmer, Laurence James, and Angus Wells, authors who often shared pen-names with each other and others. Ronald W. Spitzer contributed a Vega Books SF checklist. A one-page Tarzan story by Robert Buhr was complemented by a checklist of Tarzan imitators, prepared by Grant Thiessen. Mr. Thiessen also contributed a checklist of the 'Best of...' phenomena, a piece of verse made up mostly of science fiction titles, and an index to the Canadian magazine Super Science Stories, which continued after the demise of its American namesake. Also included are letters, a question box, reviews, and cover reproductions. Article about Edgar Rice Burroughs.

Pandora's Books (Magazine) About fine. Pandora's Books Very slightly discolored. Grant Thiessen added commentary to a checklist of the Ace Science Fiction Specials contributed by William Trojan. Stuart W. Wells III, Richard Spelman, and Grant Thiessen combined to present a checklist of Avalon Books. David S. Bratman sent a listing of books about J. R. R. Tolkien and his works. Paul Whitney contributed a Philip Jose Farmer bibliography, to which Grant Thiessen added an appreciation. Additional articles and checklists included Doctor Who, Forgotten Fantasy, Greenberg Books, and more porn SF. Letters, reviews, updates, and cover reproductions grace this issue of SFC, which was the last issue to be published on newsprint.

Pandora's Books (Magazine) About fine. Pandora's Books The newsprint pages are slightly discolored, but this copy is otherwise very clean. A huge Ballantine Books index took up the entire 48-PAGE issue, compiled by Portland, Oregon dealer Carl Bennett, which attempted to cover every printing of every science fiction, fantasy, and horror book published by Ballantine from 1953-76, at which point the del Rey imprint was adopted by Ballantine for their SF; the checklist includes the Ballantine imprints Bal-Hi and Beagle. Listed in addition to the normal bibliographic data are also the printings published under each book number, and the original cover price of each book. The books issued in the Ballantine Adult Fantasy series are all identified, as well as those issued simultaneously or subsequently in a hardback edition from Ballantine. The index is illustrated with cover reproductions.

Pandora's Books (Magazine) Near fine. Pandora's Books Staples rusted, but otherwise very clean. This issue is entirely taken up by Michael Ashley's annotated E. C. Tubb bibliography covering 120 books and 60 pseudonyms. Each item is annotated with a brief plot summary, including the short stories, and many cover reproductions are included. Article about E. C. Tubb.

Pandora's Books (Magazine) About fine. Pandora's Books Very clean. Grant Thiessen contributed an interview with A. E. Van Vogt, together with a checklist of his books and short fiction. The noted bibliographer, Philip Stephenson-Payne contributed a John Wyndham checklist. The issue is fleshed out with book reviews and letters from readers, included Robert A. W. Lowndes' comments on his magazines which were indexed in SFC 3.

Pandora's Books (Magazine) Near fine. Pandora's Books Staples rusted, newsprint section slightly discolored. With this issue, SFC also incorporated Michael Cook's Age of the Unicorn, with the combined magazine henceforth to be known as Megavore. The focus of the magazine changed a bit, to include a broader range of popular culture. In this issue were Richard Grant's Avram Davidson bibliography, an interview with John Nanovic (the editor of the pulps Doc Savage and the Shadow) conducted by Albert Tonik, and an article on Michael Collins' Dan Fortune--Private Eye, by John Edwards. Dana Martin Batory also contributed an article on Arthur Conan Doyle's 'The Story of the Man with the Watches', and Tom Johnson contributed an article on Michael Avallone, which was illustrated by Frank Hamilton. The issue was rounded out by an index to Uncanny Tales (Canadian) (by Dennis Lien), reviews and comments by Grant Thiessen, and, for the first time, a centre section containing advertisements.

Pandora's Books (Magazine) Near fine. Pandora's Books Center ad section discolored. With this issue, the name Megavore was abandoned, and the magazine became the Science Fiction Collector once more, with the focus shifting back more heavily to science fiction. Bibliographies included the science fiction from Monarch Books (by Steve Woolfolk), Curtis Books (by Dennis Lien), and Charles L. Harness (by William D. Vernon). Darrell Schweitzer contributed an article on William Sloane. The pulp articles included Robert Sampson on A. E. Apple's Dr. Chang, Nick Carr on Ryerson Johnson (illustrated by the cover painting by Frank Hamilton), and a report on Pulpcon 9 by Albert Tonik. Robert Sampson and Nick Carr also combined forces with a column on various pulp-related subjects.

Pandora's Books (Magazine) Very good. Pandora's Books Discolored. This issue includes a reprint of the first published fiction by movie director John Carpenter; bibliographies of Laser Books and Regency books, as well as Michael Ashley's bibliography of William Hope Hodgson; an article by Dana Martin Batory on how Arthur Conan Doyle influenced Edgar Rice Burroughs; and Nick Carr's article on how death was treated in the Operator 5 and G-8 pulps. This final issue was printed in a newspaper style format, and is the only issue which was never bound into hardcover.